Mengele: The Complete Story

Posner, Gerald L.; Ware, John

ISBN 10: 0070505985 / ISBN 13: 9780070505988

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1986

About this Item

Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 364 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. A clean, tight, fresh copy. Pencil erasure of old price and small, round previous owner's blind-stamp on blank front free end-paper. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mengele: The Complete Story
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070505985
• ISBN 13: 9780070505988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 2.06 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Autobiography and Biography
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

Based on their examination of more than five thousand pages of Dr. Josef Mengele's personal writings and other documents, the authors reconstruct the events of his thirty-year exile in South America

Reviews

Based on five years' research and exclusive access to family papers, this highly engrossing book gives the fullest account yet published of Josef Mengele's life. Posner, a Manhattan attorney, and Ware, a British journalist, also examine the efforts to bring the doctor to trial and draw conclusions about why he was never caught. They separate fact from legend, account for the false trails that enticed West German and Israeli agents and self-appointed Nazi hunters, and describe the media circus in 1985 when the grave of the "Angel of Death" was finally found. The book is filled with startling touches, such as Mengele's first wife's comments after visiting her husband at Auschwitz when he was conducting his "experiments." The book is an exciting chronicle of escape, evasion, close calls and fearful loneliness. Through extended quotes from a diary Mengele kept from May 1960 until shortly before his death in 1979, plus the comments of many people who knew him at various stages, a memorable multifaceted portrait of "the world's most hated man" emerges. Photos. 50,000 first printing; $20,000 ad/promo; author tour. (June
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This well-written biography is far superior to Gerald Astor's The "Last" Nazi: the life and times of Dr. Joseph Mengele ( LJ 11/1/85). Through Mengele's son, the authors were given access to their subject's letters and private diaries. Judicious use of these materials represents the book's greatest strength. Though Mengele's nightmarish Auschwitz activities almost defy rational analysis, the authors have done their best. Fully two-thirds of the study, however, addresses Mengele's years of evasion, and it is here that a more "human" Mengele emergeslonely, frightened, and totally remorseless. Clearly documented and frequently exciting, this is the one popular account that libraries should acquire. Mark R. Yerburgh, Trinity Coll. Lib., Burlington, Vt.
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